A Shuttle in the Crypt
Poems carried out of two years of solitary confinement, mostly in the head: a mind that describes itself as a shuttle thrown back and forth in a sealed chamber, keeping its bearings by naming the seasons, the tyrants and the four archetypes it takes for company. Madmen, martyrs and a betrayed Joseph appear in turn. The record of Soyinka's detention without trial, composed where writing materials were forbidden.
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